On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

quoted text
> This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based  
> machines.
> Code has been revalidated on mpc885ads (8M sdram) with recent  
> kernel. Based
> on patch from Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> to do the same on arch/ 
> ppc
> instance.
>
> Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory  
> platforms,
> those are actually non-operable without it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S      |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
> +++-
> include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc32.h |    8 --------
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

do we need similar fixes to arch/ppc ?

- k
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